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Justices give biz 9-0 win over workers in security screenings case

December 12, 2014 By PAI

For Amazon.com workers, the ruling means spending 25 minutes in line every day, unpaid, while waiting for a mandatory security check.

Need for bathroom breaks is no joke!

December 11, 2014 By PAI

We've heard of employers mistreating their workers, but the following item out of Seattle is the latest entry in the "You gotta be kidding" category.

Year-end legislative rush may produce little for workers

December 11, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

Congress' year-end rush to approve a massive spending bill for the rest of fiscal 2015, and to extend a hodge-podge of special tax breaks, may produce little for workers.

Amistad Awards show what solidarity looks like

December 11, 2014 By Special to People’s World

Honorees and attendees alike showed what solidarity looks like at the 2014 People's World Amistad Awards, "People & Nature before Profits."

Union leaders and immigrants’ rights advocates: new trade pacts disastrous

December 10, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

Implementation of new "free trade" pacts, and specifically the TPP between the U.S. and 11 other Pacific Rim nations, could lead to mass unemployment in Latin America.